Gojiban (2019-)

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Gojiban
Gojiban promotional image
Air date August 9, 2019-Present
Producer(s) Keiji Ota, Taichi Ueda, Koji Azuma,
Akihiro Yamauchi, Takanori Higuchi
Distributor Toho
Channel(s) Godzilla Channel (YouTube)
Genre(s) Comedy, puppetry
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Gojiban (ゴジばん) is an ongoing multi-segmented Japanese puppet web series co-produced by Toho, AlphaBoat, and Studio Koganemushi which premiered on the Godzilla Channel YouTube channel on August 9, 2019. The series is the result of a Godzilla-based audition campaign held by the collaborative project GEMSTONE and reuses puppets from Koganemushi's 2004 puppet show, Gekigoji.

Plot

Gojiban episodes typically alternate between Go! Go! Godzilla-kun (Go! Go!ゴジラくん,   Go Go Gojira-kun), in which Godzilla-kun teaches his brothers Minilla and Little various Godzilla skills, such as breathing atomic breath or tail sliding, and Attention! Godzilla (かまった!ゴジラ,   Kamatte Gojira), in which Kamatte-kun appears before people in times of need. Each episode ends with Old Man Hedo (ヘドじい,   Hedojī), where a conversation occurs between the titular Old Man Hedo and his grandson Hedochi as they trek through a seemingly endless wasteland. Some episodes of the series, however, feature all three segments, along with an additional fourth short. In episode 6, this consisted of a bonus second installment of Old Man Hedo entitled Old Man Hedo Extra (ヘドじい番外,   Hedojī Bangai), while episode 8 introduced the segment Ask Jet Jaguar! (ジェットジャガーに訊け!,   Jetto Jagā ni Kike), in which Jet Jaguar answers press questions from a podium at a news conference.

A fifth segment, titled Moshi Mosu (もしモス), was featured in the show's pilot but has yet to make an appearance in the final series. In it, two Mothra larvae communicate through a pair of cups attached by string.

Episodes

Go! Go! Godzilla-kun
  1. "Volume of: We Are the Three Godzilla Brothers!"
  2. "Volume of: Hit it! Three Godzilla Brothers"
  3. "Volume of: the Secret Training Dojo"
  4. "Volume of: Secret! Dropkick"
  5. "Volume of: Run Past! Three Brothers"
  6. "Volume of: Gojiban Tale - the Tortoise and the Hare"
Attention! Godzilla
  1. "Parting Lovers"
  2. "The Sad Ballerina"
  3. "Office Lady Yuko's Depression"
  4. "The Sorrowful Warrior Girls"
Ask Jet Jaguar!
  1. "Volume of: First in History! The Robot Press Conference"

Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Directed by   Hideyuki Kobayashi
  • Written by   Hideyuki Kobayashi
  • Executive producing by   Keiji Ota, Taichi Ueda, Akihiro Yamauchi
  • Produced by   Koji Azuma, Takanori Higuchi
  • Music by   Hideyuki Kobayashi, Nana Morohoshi
  • Cinematography by   Koichi Inokuchi, Jun Shimazaki
  • Puppets Created by   Hideyuki Kobayashi, Mile Paxton
  • Puppet Operators   Hiroto Nakayama, Megumi Kawano, Emi Takita
  • Title Logo by   Yukihide Toyoda
  • Illustrators   Junko Kubota, Marunana, Onigiri, Shiu Yoshijima

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Yumiko Takahashi   as   Godzilla-kun (voice)
  • Masahiro Omura   as   Boyfriend
  • Rino Shimomura   as   Girlfriend
  • Clair   as   Ballerina
  • Marie Katsura   as   Ballet master / Warrior girl
  • Yuko Amami   as   Yuko, office lady
  • Aiko Yuhara   as   Warrior girl

Appearances

Monsters

Weapons, Vehicles, and Races

  • Shobijin (Go! Go! Godzilla-kun episode title screen and credits)

Gallery

Awards

A pilot for Gojiban was submitted in March of 2019 to the first GEMSTONE Creators Audition, which had the theme of "Godzilla." It was awarded the grand prize of 300,000 yen, along with G vs. G, Fiction, Gifu Godzilla, DRESS, and Godzilla Trailer.[2] The prize-winning creators were thus given the opportunity to work with producers at Toho, with Gojiban becoming a full series aired on the official Godzilla Channel months later.

Award Category Recipient(s) Result
GEMSTONE Creators Audition Vol.1 Godzilla Gojiban Won[2]

Manga adaptation

A 4-panel comic strip-style manga adaptation of Gojiban, entitled Gojiman (ゴジ漫), began being serialized by the Japanese anime news site Animage Plus beginning on September 12, 2019.[3] New issues are released every Thursday.

Videos

GEMSTONE submission video
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8

Trivia

  • Gojiban marks the first Godzilla-related series to be produced since 1999's Godzilla TV, as well as the first ever Godzilla web series.
  • In episode 1 of Go! Go! Godzilla-kun, Godzilla-kun stepping on Minilla's tail to make him fire stronger smoke rings is a reference to the film Son of Godzilla, in which Godzilla stepping on Minilla's tail causes him to fire a proper atomic breath, rather than smoke rings.
  • In the Go! Go! Godzilla-kun segment, Anguirus communicates with Godzilla-kun through roars and speech bubbles as a fan request by the Japanese YouTube user Uchi no Angirasu (うちのアンギラス). This is in reference to the Japanese theatrical version of Godzilla vs. Gigan, which featured Godzilla and Anguirus' dialogue being represented with speech bubbles. Anguirus' line "OK!" even mirrors that from the film.
  • Similarly, the "Godzilla Kick" move that Godzilla-kun teaches to Minilla and Little in episode 4 is a reference to an identical move performed by Godzilla in Godzilla vs. Megalon. This too was a fan request, by user Yoshio-kun (ヨシオくん).

References

This is a list of references for Godziban. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. Hyper Hobby #14. Tokuma Shoten. p. 130. 10 September 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Awarded Works". GEMSTONE. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  3. Murakita, Keiko (12 September 2019). "東宝怪獣たちが活躍する人形劇『ゴジばん』の4コマ漫画『ゴジ漫』スタート!". Animage Plus.

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